"Since its founding, the Clinton Foundation has invested millions each year for work in fighting AIDS and empowering women, but its recent uptick in donations from foreign governments has been raising questions about the potential influence on Hillary Clinton, as she gets ready to run for president.

"The combatants in WWII, in this instance, the Americans and our Allies, conducted what has become known as total war.

在这种情况下，2战中的美军和我们的盟军指挥的，所谓的全面战争。

Nothing was off the table:

没有什么是不能讨论的：

enemy combatants were mutilated, tortured, summary executions performed on wounded and those immediately taken prisoner, heads displayed in a variety of ways (typically of dead Japanese), and civilians killed by the ...tens of thousands via bombing, etc.

敌人的士兵被致残，虐待了，受伤的人和那些关押的战俘被临时处决，人头被用各种方式陈列展览（典型的死日本人），轰炸杀几万市民了，等等。

Some of these acts were indeed gross excesses, but in the big picture, that's how WWII was fought and won (and the press and the high brass swept as much of this as possible under the carpet), and I've never interviewed a veteran from WWII who felt any guilt about the way we prosecuted the war.

My father's task force passed several hundred Japanese sailors floating at sea whose ship had been sunk and every U. S. vessel was ordered to depress their guns to the lowest elevation and fire into the human mass as they passed by.

Dad, to this day, feels absolutely nothing about that event, saying that everyone on his destroyer just did their job knowing the enemy would have done the same to us in a similar situation.

我的父亲，直到今天，对这个事件也不以为然，并说，在他的战舰上的每个人，只不过是做了日本人在同样情况下也同样会做的事情而已。

What mattered was winning at all costs, and that we did. You can indulge a sense of remorse, if you choose, and go back to being civilized once your enemy has been unequivocally obliterated and has lost all will to resist."

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Thank you for your efforts in translating the article to Chinese language. Good to know that another person gets in the CW argument. Magic Kingdom Dispatch's comment starts with the line "The thing is, the comfort women scandal holds no water after you study its details for just ten minutes". Anyone who has common sense can understand the point. I hope Chinese people will read Mr. Yon's articles and take a moment to think about the issue. I do believe that there are some Chinese who are not influenced by what the government says. But I don't believe that there are some Koreans who are not affected by their government and the biased media. They are hopeless people, totally brain washed.